24 Utah 2d 39 - Coombs v. Ouzounian’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Smith v. Hevro Realty Corp. (1986), Zion's Properties, Inc. v. Holt (1975)
41 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 61 Cal. 2d 559 - O'Banion v. Paradiso · Miller v. Carmody · 4 Ariz. App. 349 - Kammert Bros. Enterprises, Inc. v. Tanque Verde Plaza Co. · Clover Leaf Dairy Co. v. Van Gerven · Reimann Et Ux. v. Baum Et Ux.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every contract for the . . . sale, of any lands, or any interest in lands, shall be void unless the contract, or some note or memorandum thereof, is in writing subscribed by the party by whom the lease or sale is to be made, or by his lawful agent thereunto authorized in writing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An option to purchase is an interest in real estate and is within the statute of frauds. An extension of a contract which is required to be in writing is not enforceable, by the majority rule, in the absence of an estoppel, if it does not comply with the statute of frauds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mills v. Brody
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.